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[Frogwarrior]

Bumped because I have new information.

If the bolts are stored in bins, this is SUPER EASY. Just set the marksdwarves to off-duty, and the archery ranges to an unusable size/direction. The dwarf will pluck bolts out of the bin and store them in his quiver with nary an ounce of micromanagement needed. I swear by it these days.

[Urist Imiknorris]

You want infinite capacity quivers?! I'LL GIVE YOU INFINITE CAPACITY QUIVERS!!!!

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[NAME:Never gonna need ammo again...]
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[PRODUCT:100:10000:AMMO:ITEM_AMMO_BOLTS:WOOD:FEATHER]

[yuriatayde]

I just put a small ammo stockpile nearby or inside the archery turret, and only hire speedy dwarves to be my archers (I'm too lazy to train them myself) and I never have to worry about ammo either. Better yet, make bolts through a workshop placed very near to your defenses so the hauling jobs to restock the turrets are fast as well.

Doing that, infinite ammo seems like a waste of time for me. Even when I consider single-bolt stacks, they shoot a little bit slower but I overkill the hell out of archery anyway so it's no big deal.

I got a laugh out of this bug though, imagining a dwarf with a gattling-crossbow, complete with the chain-fed bolts coming out of his quiver.

[Asehujiko]

I got a laugh out of this bug though, imagining a dwarf with a gattling-crossbow, complete with the chain-fed bolts coming out of his quiver.

This needs fanart. Somebody go poke the people in the relevant thread.

[Frogwarrior]

It comes it a lot handier for archers who are going to go out on the battlefield, rather than waiting for them to come to you. I often do this. Also, I'm planning on doing a fort where the entire fort's defenses is one marksdwarf with a quantum quiver, and a series of catwalks/tunnels allowing him to pop up anywhere.

Also, with my Cat Splosion mod, cats use blowdarts, which only have 10 damage, so you kinda have to rely on heart/throat shots. And I send my military into the field, usually. Really helps to have 100+ darts at a time.